• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 27 March 2002

I am very concerned with enforcement because I want congestion charging to work and so I am wondering just how effective you think the enforcement is going to be? How closely are you now working with the Police to devise strategies for this?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 27 March 2002

Roger Evans: I'm surprised because I'd have thought in the specifications for the equipment you would have' The Mayor: I haven't got the specifications to the equipment off the top of my head either. Roger Evans: I'm also surprised because I would have thought that was an important political consideration for someone in your position. If someone lives in Scotland and they've not got their car out of the garage in the last six years and they get a fine from the GLA, what will the process be by which they will be able to challenge that fine and demonstrate...

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 27 March 2002

To an extent you have dealt with my inquiry in that I was wondering about the people from Europe who came over and might get away with it. But I wondered if you had considered there would be any mileage in a Euro number plate given your support for Europe?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 27 March 2002

Ken, those of us who have been in local authority know we get complaints from people who've got wrongful parking tickets and so we know that we are all going to get complaints from people who've got these wrongly and I don't think it's unfair wanting to know how it's going to be dealt with.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 27 March 2002

No, that's a statement of intent.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 27 March 2002

How many fines do you expect the system to issue in error, in other words to people who have not actually driven into the zone?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 27 March 2002

After going to the ABD meeting it was clear to me that the congestion charge does need a lot of selling to organisations like that and I would suggest that a real point is made of the fact that illegal drivers cost legal drivers a huge amount of money and they also cost society a lot of money. I think a charm offensive has got to be done with the AA and the RAC and the ABD. Have you started that charm offensive?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 27 March 2002

At a meeting of the Association of British Drivers that I went to recently " The Mayor: - You must have been welcome there! Jenny Jones: Yes, good training. They were suggesting that they would even be un-registering themselves, becoming illegal as a response to the congestion charge. It"s already true that something like 10% of pedestrian deaths are from hit and run accidents and quite a sizeable proportion of those are from illegally registered drivers who can't be caught. I do see this as a big potential problem and I feel that, while you are taking the issue of...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 27 March 2002

And I am sure you will let us all have a copy of it?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 27 March 2002

Derek Turner told us yesterday at the Transport Policy Committee that this element of the exercise would be a labour-intensive, manual process requiring people to spend a lot of time on it. The Mayor: - But you have to do it. Roger Evans: Yes, I wondered if you had done any work on the number of people you would need to employ or the amount it would cost or the level of resources that you would need to put into the whole issue of dealing with appeals from people who are wrongly fined?